GRAND RAPIDS, MI – City police want to pull the liquor license from New Roosevelt Bar, where four people were shot last month and a murder took place last year.

Grand Rapids City Commission at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, will hold a hearing on non-renewal of the bar’s Class C liquor license. A report circulated to commissioners shows that police have responded to 35 incidents at 1447 Grandville Ave. SW since the bar got its liquor license in March 2012.

Three men and a woman were hit by bullets when someone fired at a back door where patrons were trying to leave New Roosevelt Bar around 2 a.m. Feb. 22. Two men were shot in the leg, another in the foot and a woman was hit in the neck. None of the injuries were life-threatening.

A Grand Rapids Police Department report shows 17 incidents at New Roosevelt from April 2011 to March 14, 2012, when the bar got its liquor license. It shows 35 incidents in the year since then.

Bar manager Bryan Martinez told MLive that he needs more help from police to keep patrons safe at closing time.

Third Ward City Commissioner James White suggested that Grand Rapids convene a meeting of all bar and night club owners to explain the cost of the city functioning as, what he called, a private security force.

“Fifty, sixty calls a year in one place is just costing the city too much money,” White said. “We can present that to the owners and ask for their suggestions. I’d like to just see what they would say.”